The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-10-13
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEI.


Miss ELEANOR II. HARRISON, 3 grad.
uate of Smith College, will fill the
position of teacher of composition ard
rhetoric Mt the Buffalo Female AcaG.
envy.
Mrs. MARY 5. KNAGGs cditsa "Wom-
ans World column in the Bay City
(Mich.) Tribune. which is rich with
varied interest, and well sustained. -
H,omdH'S journal.
Nora NJ. CROWLEY. of Cincinnati,
sister of Rev. Father Crowley, former
ly of st. Patrick's Catholic Church. has
applied for naturalization papers in or
der to perfect her application for a
Government appointment.
FANNY kEMBLE is living in England
A visit from her is expected ut Lenox.
Mass, and the people there will give
her Il warm reception. The clock and
bell in the tower of the Congregational
Church were 4 present froii her
Mis-. Lucas. of London. Mss WILL
ARD, of Chicago. and MRs. HANNAH
WHITEHALL SMITH, Of Philadelphia,
have issued circular in which they
ask Christian women everywhere to
observe November II and Is as DAYS
of PRAYER for divine blessing upon
every form of temperance work in the
world.
Miss CLARA BARTON sailed on Tues
day from New York to London. Just
before sailing, she sent TO the Wom-
ans Department of Mechanics Fair
an exhibit of the Red Cross work,
which will be made in Quicker porta-
Bile barrack. This was kindly placed
at the disposal of Miss Barton by Mr..
John Hanna.
Miss ANNA {. BRACKETT has been
writing recently on the luxury that is
being introduced into some education,
al establishments. Miss Bracket re
CARDS it as possible to make person
too comfortable for his work. "In
school, she says, 1.-THE teach is thCre
to teach, not to receive, nor to rest.
As we'll have sofas and arm-chairs in
any workshop" she adds, and she be.
licves, for the forging of character,
We need the anvil and all the surround
ings of labor.
Mis-. MARY HAYNES JONES. wife of
the late Prof. William p. Jones. former
president of the Northwestern Female
College, at Evanston, H., and Miss
Lydia l.. Jones, their adopted daugh-
ter, an alumna of the Northwestern
University, have continued to carry on
the institution. Mrs. Jones has now
become its president. At the recent
commencement of the Northwestern
University, she received the degree of
A. NJ She graduated in 1851, from
Mt. HOlyoke Seminary, and has been
in educational and literary work ever
since.
Miss ELAINE GooDALE, who isspcnd-
ing the first vacation she has allowed
herself since she began work among
the Indians in lccturing on the Indian
question in the East, is doing her best
to elevate the tone of the day schools
maintained on the reservations At
Lower Brule, ID. r.. where some 800
Indians are settled, she has had full
classes and unusal success. She is
there but sixty miles or so from Miss
Grace Howard, daughter OF Joe How
ard, the journalist, who. at Crow Creek,
has undertaken kindred work. the
introduction of simple rcmuncrative
industries among Indian girls.
Miss Lucy SALMON, the new Profess
SOL Of History at Nassar College, is
woman with future. Her book. The
Appointing Power of the President
is the clearest monograph that has APP
peared on that difficult subject and is
a noteworthy production for one CT the
non-poltical sex. Miss Salmon is
graduate of Michigan University and
fellow of Bryn Mawr College. 1t is
curious, by the way, that seven of the
ten fellOwships open to competition in
that woman's college are held by graz
yates of co-educational schools. Miss
Salmon is finc-looking, with a clear.
open face, physically and mentally
healthy, and steadfast looking.